Alisdair Matheson > Brodies LLP > Glasgow, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Brodies LLP Offices
110 QUEEN STREET
GLASGOW
G1 3BX
United Kingdom
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Alisdair Matheson
Work Department
Litigation/insurance and risk.
Position
Alisdair has more than 20 years’ experience in resolving disputes in the commercial sphere in rapid and cost effective ways including the use of alternative dispute resolution. His practice focuses mainly on professional negligence claims including those involving solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers, surveyors and construction professionals such as engineers and architects. One of only two people dually accredited in both Professional Negligence and Construction law by The Law Society of Scotland, he is a ranked lawyer for professional negligence in Chambers Legal Directory.
He has a unique profile in the Scottish Insurance Industry being the first lawyer elected President of the 138-year old Insurance & Actuarial Society of Glasgow, the Chartered Insurance Institute’s organisation for the West of Scotland. A member of the Society for Construction Law, the Adjudication Society, he is the Scottish member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers’ UK wide Professional Negligence Sector Focus Team.
Career
Trainee W&J Burness 1995-97; solicitor MacRoberts 1997-98; solicitor Henderson Boyd Jackson 1998-99; solicitor Semple Fraser 1999-2001; sabbatical JET scheme, Japan 2001-02; solicitor, associate, partner Brodies LLP (including time with Bishops pre-merger) 2002 to date.
Memberships
Society for Construction Law; Adjudication Society; Chartered Insurance Institute; The Insurance and Actuarial Society of Glasgow, secretary for their Professional Development Group.
Education
Cleveden Secondary School, Glasgow; Glasgow University (1994 LLB Hons; 1995 Dip LP).
Leisure
Family, rugby, running, cycling, climbing, reading, music, travel, Hillhead Jordanhill RFC.
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Insurance > Professional negligence
(Leading individuals)Described as ‘simply the best’, Brodies LLP‘s professional negligence offering runs the full gamut of contentious insurance matters where the team acts for an impressive client roster, including individual, corporate and insurer clients across a range of sectors. Head of practice Alan Calvert
specialises in construction and commercial disputes with considerable expertise in claims against engineers, surveyors and construction industry contractors. Alisdair Matheson is an accredited professional negligence specialist and frequently acts for insurers. The team is supported by a strong group of associates, including Edward Grundy, Stephanie Barratt and James Jerman. Louise Kelso left the firm for an in-house role at the University of Edinburgh in July 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Scotland > Insurance > Professional negligence
- Professional negligence Scotland > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in Scotland
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in Scotland
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: fraud
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Education
- Employment > Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Health and safety
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Finance > Investment funds
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Public sector > Local government
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Public sector > Parliamentary and public affairs
- Insurance > Personal injury: defender
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
- Real estate > Planning
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Environment
- Public sector > Health
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance > Medical negligence: defender
- Employment > Pensions
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Projects
- Real estate > Social housing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport